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| January 7, 2019

Sustainable Water Infrastructure Project To Move City Of Santa Monica Closer To Water Self-Sufficiency

Arcadis partnering with Kiewit and PERC Water to innovate City’s treatment and reuse of brackish groundwater, wastewater and stormwater runoff.

Arcadis, the leading global Design & Consultancy firm for natural and built assets, announced recently it will partner with Kiewit Infrastructure West and PERC Water to serve as the Progressive Design-Build team for City of Santa Monica’s Sustainable Water Infrastructure Project (SWIP).

Comply with stormwater pollution discharge regulations of State Water Board

Recycle up to one million gallons per day of municipal wastewater for reuse, including for future indirect potable reuse (IPR) via aquifer recharge

Treat up to a 0.5 million gallons per day of stormwater and/or brackish/saline-impaired groundwater for reuse

Conserve over 1,680 acre-feet (about 550 million gallons) of groundwater or imported water per year

As a sub-consultant to Kiewit, Arcadis will lead the design portion of the project, alongside PERC Water.

“We’re excited to help take City of Santa Monica that much closer to their goal to be water self-sufficient by 2020,” said Christine Cotton, senior vice president of Arcadis North America. “We look forward to partnering once again with Kiewit to bring another new water source to Southern California.”

The SWIP will provide the following:

Reverse osmosis technology to treat brackish/saline-impaired groundwater and stormwater at the Santa Monica Urban Runoff Recycling Facility (SMURRF), as will new solar panels for energy offset

Sewer lift stations and a below-grade stormwater and sewer treatment facility at the Civic Center parking lot, with the ability to treat 1 million gallons of wastewater or harvested stormwater per day

Stormwater lift stations and a below-grade stormwater harvesting tank at the Civic Center parking lot, with a total storage capacity of 4.5 million gallons

The design phase is underway and the project is expected to be complete in 2020.